82 Quotes by Lucy Liu

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.

I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, 'Well, she's too Asian', or, ‘She's too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It's a very strange place to be. You're not Asian enough and then you're not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.

It’s like kill or be killed, that’s my thing basically.

You don’t want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she’s really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn’t try and put yourself out there you’d never know.

A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don’t survive after a time because they’ve been sick too.

If you see the Sopranos, you’re not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

You can’t look back; you have to keep looking forward.

The neck is kind of what’s sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it’s a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.